Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Skyler Stewart, leader of AI+IoT of Epic iO, for a captivating conversation around Cultivating an Innovative Mindset.
Nancy is honored to introduce Skyler Stewart. Skyler has been successful for the last 19+ years in building national and global channel partner sales organizations in the wireline, wireless, Voice, Data, and Cloud industries. He has served in various channel sales and executive leadership roles for successful start-ups that included such notable telecom companies as Stewart Electric & Communications, Mountain Telecommunications Inc. now Eschelon Telecom and Integra Telecom. Prior to that, he served as Channel Chief at Telesphere overseeing all Indirect Channel Sales nationally, and was instrumental in the expansion of the Indirect Channel, which was then acquired by Vonage Business in 2015. Currently, he serves as the head of AI+IoT for Epic iO leading a team of experts making a safer, smarter, & more connected world for smart cities across the country. In addition to being the recipient of numerous performance and President’s Club Awards during his career, Skyler specializes in customizing solutions for large enterprise customers seeking a superior solution, ranging from Security, AI, IoT, UCaaS, CCaaS, CPaaS, SDWan, and various other SaaS services. While away from the office, Skyler enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys while seeking ways to fulfill his need for speed. Prior to his professional telecom career, Skyler raced motocross professional around the globe.
Index:
00:52 – Introduction of Skyler Stewart and his Background
03:25 – Cultivating an Innovative Mindset; Definition of IoT
06:00 – Solving Business Problems; Core Pillars
07:58 – How can we put the concept of billions of connections and the metadata into our lives?
09:57 – Seeing applications everywhere; projected rate of adoption
13:27 – Countering resistance; Profitability
15:15 – The mindset and seeing the applications everywhere
18:49 – Solving for customer experience and reducing costs
21:15 – AI notifications immediately
23:19 – Customer and Employee Experience; Culture of Caring
25:28 – What innovation would you most like to see gain adoption?
Helpful Links –
Epic iO – epicio.com/
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Release Date:
24 May 2022